Filamentous bacteria represent a major problem in the efficiency of wastewater treatment and current detection methods are both slow and cumbersome, the problem manifesting itself most prominently in the form of clogged primary clarifiers. Our group designed a system that automates one method for filamentous bacteria detection that involved imaging chemically stained sludge samples. Our system utilizes a rotary custom transportation stage and new imaging stage controllers to provide automated acquisition, preparation and imaging of the bacteria more quickly and efficiently than the methods currently being employed.

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Creator

• Shrestha, Smriti
• Frelat, Caroline Stephanie
• Nguyen, Linh Xuan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 04D218M

Advisor

• Sotak, Christopher H.
• Kildahl, Nicholas K.
• Camesano, Terri Anne

Year

• 2004

Sponsor

• ENSIC-INPL, Nancy, France

Date created

• 2004-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biomedical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright